Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-10
COOPERATION NECESSARY.
Tho Evans selical Alliance on the Work
Of the Churches.
The Perils to Which They are Now Ex.
posed.
The Common School System Danger
ously Attacked.
More Churches Needed In the P0t
Parts Of Towns.
Money Is Needed, But Workers Sti
More Necessary.

WASHINGTON, December 9.-At the open
ing conference of the Evangelical Alliance
this morning Rev. DR.. Storrs' paper on
The Necessity Of Cooperation in Christian
Work" was read by DR.. Chamberlain, OF
Brooklyn, DR.. Storrs.being ill. The paper
ak.des to the nerils arising from the
r:suae of wealth, illiteracy, sstrnnsement
ofInany from church. The great thing
needed is to gather up and concentrate cur
power. Bishop Harris, OF Michigan, said it
would be madness to remain divided in this
hour OF danger. He must be equally op.
pissed to Imperialism and socialism. The
Bible, the Sabbath and liberty OF con
science must be defended with Christ as our
!sader, indeed, but with our own active CO.
operation as we'll or shall We go the way
Il other nations whose early history has
ssen fair and promising. The kind OF co.
operation we advocate, is not political.
Church and State must be separate. Our
common school system is a peculiar pro-
duct of our Anglo Saxon Christianity and
re must stand for it against q very strong
and dangerous attack OF ultramontanisln
tshich has taken advantage OF our divir.
s IONS to Danish the Bible from it and then
WITH SAVAGE kHCON5lSTENCX
attack it as ungodly. We must
go deeper. We must seek not
only to keep this or that external
we must strike at the root OF
sin in the heart. Cooperation in promot.
|jng vital, intense personal piety is one OF
the great needs. In the West. In small
Gowns, several churches by their competi.
-, aHo r1 70 ola tN rnoko fha devil
laugh and angels weep, and in cities the
eed OF union is equally great. Our divis'
:ons have Impoverished our love for man,
as ultramontanism often fails to minister
to the want it creates, and fosters and
leaves to US Protestante to faed and clothe
The church makes magnificent and i'm
posing show of caring for the poor, but it
is hollow and unreal. We have been mis-
srably and sel6shly divided. and hence
our weakness. Rev. DR.. Gladcn, of Colum
bus, Ohio, said
UNITY IN EvANaELlsrlc LABOR
10 good if we don't break the allegiance o.
individuals to particular church. Amar
converted in church will on an average
do as much as three converted in rink
A thing much less demoDstrative is better
The best pal ts OF towns ane cities have
twice as many churches as are needed. the
poorer far too few, and SO OF competition
Of many sects in new towns. We must
frankly admit the essential quality o
Christian churches. It must stop the com
petition Of Donny brook Fair sort. VI
must recognize the peril to our industries
to the Government, il the present wide
spread discomfort develops into Anar
! rhisrn- we must throttle that by law, bu
we must use prevention to keep It rru,r
coming to that. The unreasonable de
mauds OF the workingman must, as lar Al
possible, be modified
BY REASON AND LOVE
and this only the church can do success
fully. Churches must repent OF thei
abandonment Of poor districts and thel
20 and do works meet for repentance
They should colonize with some Ct thei
| best IA miles and not merely build missions
This is the work that cannot be done b.
hired men, missionaries or the theological
students. Your money is needed but yo
are needed etiil more. The Fenerabl
Philip Schaff. D. D., was introduced as ON
who was tho father uf the alliance. ant
had been one of the most active worker
for it's ends. He spoke but few moment
| when the session closed in order that dele
| gates might attend the Presidents receE
| ton, At the afternoon session Josiai
Strong, D. D., addressed the congre alton
He was followed by Frank Russell, D. d
who read a paper on cooperation IN sma
cities.